MORE NEWSPRINT FOR BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25537, 3 July 1948, Page 7

MORE NEWSPRINT FOR BRITAIN

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(Rec. 9.30 p.m.) LONDON July 2. . Urging that newsprint should be given high priority among the things the Government should seek to restore Mr Ernest Jay, in his presidential address to the annual delegates’ meeting of the National Union of Journalists at Scarborough, said that vast fields of information must be left unrecorded in the ceaseless competition of too much news-chasing and too little space. “If, as we are obliged to do we compress and condense news to the barest minimum, we are accused of distortion,” he said. “If we give space to some items, and exclude others, we are charged with suppression. The survival of democracy demands that a more generous supply of newsprint must be available as soon as possible ”

Noted U.S. Pilot Killed.—Allen Smith, a famous torpedo-bomber pilot in the Pacific during the war. and four other Navy Reserve pilots were killed aboard a Navy, transport aircraft which crashed in Virginia yesterday. Smith served in the Pacific in three different carriers and was credited with sinking two Japanese cruisers with torpedoes and shooting down a heavy Japanese bomber. He was decorated five times, his awards including the Navy Cross.—New York, July 1.